Recommendations?
Criticisms?
― djh, Sunday, 3 January 2010 19:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
And perhaps to consider this assertion, from a friend: "I have regularly wondered if it's pointless listening to Peter Broderick/Olafur Arnalds when solo piano stuff is probably done best by those who have stood the test of centuries."
― djh, Sunday, 3 January 2010 19:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
Not sure if this is quite inside the Boomkat context, but I'm very fond of this band.
― Joe Pass Filter (MaresNest), Sunday, 3 January 2010 20:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
"I have regularly wondered if it's pointless listening to Peter Broderick/Olafur Arnalds when solo piano stuff is probably done best by those who have stood the test of centuries."
― Monophonic Spree (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 4 January 2010 01:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
But certainly there's more interesting new stuff out there besides quasi-classical music aimed at the indie set?
― Sailor Tuxedo Moon Mask (Daruton), Monday, 4 January 2010 01:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
For the most part, I agree with both of the two previous posts.
― djh, Monday, 4 January 2010 11:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
I do find Richard Skelton quite moving:
http://www.mixcloud.com/FluidRadio/richard-skelton-exclusive/player/
― djh, Friday, 8 January 2010 22:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
a lot of that boomkat modern classical kinda stuff is really wonderful
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Friday, 8 January 2010 22:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
who do you rate in particular?
― djh, Saturday, 9 January 2010 16:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
Richard Skelton is one of my very favourite musicians of the last few years. Everything he's done that I have is amazing; particularly notable is the attention to the physical packaging etc (though even without that, the music is amazing).
― toby, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 18:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
What would you go for next, after "Landings"?
― djh, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 19:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
i really like Olafur Arnalds. i haven't heard much of his other music, but 'the blue notebooks' by max richter--while a fairly obvious and PFM-approved pick--is really great. 'a box of birch' by a broken consort is good (another skelton project, i think?) would leyland kirby/the caretaker count?
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 19:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
Loving the Kirby album, all three discs of it.
Interesting that Richter's album on the (um, late) Late Junction imprint got picked up by FatCat's neo-classical off-shoot.
― djh, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 19:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
these were the other three Type things that arrived from boomkat the other day (in addition to zelienople mentioned elswhere). not listened to it all in depth yet but have shuffled it during last three commutes. i got the On lp (ambient drones), the Goldmund (reminds me of music for airports piano bits) and the recent Helios (like the quiet bits of mogwai)
http://typerecords.com/releases <- handy podcast section
there's also a boomkat winter sale featuring a lot of Type lps, mine came to about £4 each
> "I have regularly wondered if it's pointless listening to Peter Broderick/Olafur Arnalds when solo piano stuff is probably done best by those who have stood the test of centuries."
i kinda thought the same with the goldmund, whether there were classical piano works i should be looking up, but in addition to rather than instead of.
― koogs, Thursday, 14 January 2010 10:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
Koogs, thanks for the heads-up on the Boomkat deals. I went for the On record too. Sounds awesome: "SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU AND STEVEN HESS REWORKED BY DEATHPROD... this is the great 'lost' Deathprod album".
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Thursday, 14 January 2010 10:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
that On cover pic as well, is lovely (folded out is even better). a lot of the Type records have covers that remind me of red house painters 4ad sleeves.
― koogs, Thursday, 14 January 2010 10:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
Also went for the ON cd ...
― djh, Thursday, 14 January 2010 10:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, that whole visual aesthetic is something that I'm quite easily sold on. x-post
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Thursday, 14 January 2010 10:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
(On photographer has more photos here:http://blog.shawnconvey.com/#57065/Your-Naked-Ghost )
― koogs, Thursday, 14 January 2010 11:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
Woah unexpected mental guitars on the last track of Olafur Arnald's Eulogy for Evolution.
Eluvium's piano stuff definitely worth a mention here - An Accidental Memory in Case of Death, When I Live by the Garden and the Sea. Also Copia, and Miniatures under his name of Robert Cooper Clarke, more instrumentation but still of the 'classical' bent.
Would be happy to listen to older stuff if I knew of any that sounded like this, but aside from Satie, I don't. Recommendations welcome!
― CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Thursday, 14 January 2010 11:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
> Woah unexpected mental guitars on the last track of Olafur Arnald's Eulogy for Evolution.
mental guitars = industrial revolution
― koogs, Thursday, 14 January 2010 12:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
so anyway, pilfering the Type podcasts. and there's pme by Simon Scott, ex-ex-ex of slowdive. and there's a link to his blog. and there's an lp by him ('Navigare') and a link to Boomkat who gave it record of the week last october
http://typerecords.com/typecasts/9http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=232012
is in a similar vein to the On record (in the way all ambient stuff sounds the same) but with tinges of the old slowdive sound (or am i imagining that?)
(typed in classical piano to amazon's mp3 downloads site. millions of hits. oh um)
― koogs, Friday, 15 January 2010 12:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
Either "Marking Time" or "Box of Birch", I guess. It's all good though.
― toby, Friday, 15 January 2010 13:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
On a piano bent, it's not exactly the same as this stuff, but if you don't know Chopin's Nocturnes, you should definitely check them out.
― toby, Friday, 15 January 2010 13:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
this week's boomkat recommendations (link should be good for future use too):
http://boomkat.com/genres/32/recommendations
the Minamo sounds nice from the samples (but i have more cheap Type records to check out first). the Owen Pallett is miss categorised i think, sounds more like the beach boys.
i also find there's some crossover with the Dark Ambient / Drone / Metal genre
http://boomkat.com/genres/137/recommendations
(the mp3 versions have samples of all tracks, not just the three they choose for the cds)
― koogs, Saturday, 16 January 2010 13:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
*Loving* On's Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night.
― djh, Monday, 18 January 2010 21:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
If you like Johann Johannsson you should investigate ... ? (contemporary or otherwise)
― djh, Monday, 18 January 2010 21:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
On's a bit bleak for my tastes. Where's the choons?
― CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 14:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain by Mono & World's End Girlfriend is a bit Johannsonesque. Well it has violins anyway. Pretty miserablist though.
― CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
I have never heard of these composers. I assume they sound something like Satie informed by minimalism with subtle O'Rourke-ish electronic touches, with higher production values and lower standards of performance technique than most 'new music'? Which could be great or not, depending.
(Ha, OK, just noticed the Satie comparison.)
― Sundar, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
Thanks for the Skelton link!
― Sundar, Thursday, 21 January 2010 17:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
Johann Johannsson & Greg Haines (?) live in London in May:http://www.last.fm/event/1380575+Arctic+Circle+Presents+-+J%C3%B3hann+J%C3%B3hannsson+-+Greg+Haines
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Friday, 22 January 2010 12:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hildur Gudnadottier's Without Sinking deserves a special mention.
(Any thoughts on her other releases? I haven't heard them).
― djh, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 08:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
this thread title cracks me up and is so otm
― ben bernankles (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 08:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
Do any of these artists get reviewed as "classical" music in anywhere other than the Wire? Do they get coverage in what might be described as "traditional" classical music magazines?
― djh, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
the actual boomkat category is 'classical / home listening / ambient' and it's pretty much a catch all for slow quiet stuff.
― koogs, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
Do they get coverage in what might be described as "traditional" classical music magazines?
judging from a cursory search, not at all.
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
Never bought it myself, but I think that the BBC Music magazine (mostly classical, some jazz too) has Late Junction-type stuff in it (Late Junction being the one mainstream radio programme that plays this sorta stuff).
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
Nils Frahm added to the Johann Johannsson show.
― djh, Friday, 29 January 2010 22:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
Akira Rabelais has a new album coming out soon. Everyone should listen to Eisoptrophobia. Lovely, haunted reworkings of gorgeous piano pieces from the likes of Satie et al.
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Friday, 29 January 2010 22:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
Frahm's The Bells sounded lovely earlier while cleaning the kitchen; Johannsson's Virdulegu forsetar sounding gorgeous now (possibly my favourite classical album ever, up there with my favourite albums of any genre); have also been enjoying Valgeir Sigurdsson's Draumalandid.
― djh, Saturday, 30 January 2010 22:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
Anyone heard the Rachel Grimes album?
― djh, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 10:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
BTW, djh, thanks for starting this thread...hadn't heard Chauveau or Arnalds yet and grabbed a bunch of both. The Arnalds albums I got have rapidly become some of my favourites.
Anyone else picked up the newish Johannsson soundtrack to the film Varmints? Grabbed it on vinyl and ripped it to MP3 (guess the CD isn't out yet) but there seems to be some weird distortion that comes in on the last track of side one...not sure if that's part of the sound or whether my rip was bad...was perfectly clear up until that point. Either way, enjoyed the album.
― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 5 February 2010 03:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
the Varmints soundtrack turned up in today's boomkat newsletter (vinyl only until april it says) and actually goes by the snappy title "And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees"
samples here:http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=245281
― koogs, Friday, 5 February 2010 11:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
You can get Varmints on CD - it came out as a tour CD - I got my copy from Insound. It's being re-issued in the UK in April.
― djh, Friday, 5 February 2010 16:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
Free compilation that partly matches this thread's aesthetic here: http://jointhecircle.net/
― djh, Friday, 5 February 2010 20:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
nils frahm's wintermusik sounding fucking gorgeous right now (washing the dishes, glass of red on the go).
― djh, Saturday, 13 February 2010 18:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
Want to echo the Richard Skelton love upthread - Landings is great. Maybe I just don't listen to enough of this sort of thing, but the strings on it sound fantastic, there's a really earthy resonance to them.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Saturday, 13 February 2010 20:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
In the mood to buy a record in this genre ... Any suggestions?
― djh, Saturday, 20 February 2010 16:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
One artist you may want to check out is Harold Budd - a lot of good albums dating back to the 70s, even. It varies a bit, from very piano-heavy to highly processed, so you'll want to preview them first I guess. I have a soft spot for Lovely Thunder and his collab with the Cocteau Twins, Moon and the Melodies but people often point to The White Arcades as a good starting point. (He also has some newer releases too which I'm somewhat less familiar with.)
― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 22 February 2010 17:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
'Systems/Layers' is an ultimate winter album for me
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 6 November 2011 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
This sounds like it has potential:
http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/jacaszek-glimmer?utm_source=tgs-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TGS111611
― djh, Friday, 18 November 2011 23:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
A new Jacaszek always has potential! Thanks for the link.
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 18 November 2011 23:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ah, surprised I'd not heard of him before:
http://soundcloud.com/miasmah/sets/jacaszek-treny/
― djh, Saturday, 19 November 2011 22:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
A Winged Victory For The Sullen play Manchester, Glasgow and London in January: https://www.facebook.com/awvfts
London tickets here: http://bit.ly/rEacMQ
Happy to see that Sleepingdog are supporting as I missed them at Cafe Oto this week.
Their record is worth mentioning in this thread:http://www.gizehrecords.com/gzh31.html
― Super Receptor (Barnaby, Hardly), Saturday, 19 November 2011 23:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
In the same vein as A Winged Victory, the Christina Vantzou album is worth a listen on Spotify. She's the other half of The Dead Texan btw in case the name's not familiar.
― next thing she's shaving my skrillex (NickB), Saturday, 19 November 2011 23:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
can someone give me guidance on these Sylvain Chauveau albums (all on Type)? i have "The Black Book of Capitalism" already, it kills, just want to know what else is really good vs. skippable
right now i could get:
- S- Nuage- Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)
??? thanks
― ilxor, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 18:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
all(?) the cds are in the boomkat winter sale btw (which might be why you're asking). lots of other Type bargains too.
― koogs, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 21:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
actually, boomkat has samples (more samples if you click on the mp3 version)
― koogs, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 21:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Syvain Chauveau-related: I recommend the Deathprod-mixed On album.
― djh, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 21:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
On is great yes.
As for Sylvain Chauveau, I think you should get Nuage and/or S. And if you dare also try and find 'Down to the Bone: An Acoustic Tribute to Depeche Mode', which is fantastic. Cover album of DM tracks with Sylvain singing. Hauntingly beautiful
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 11:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
psyched for matt bourne's new album on leaf
http://www.theleaflabel.com/en/artists/view/51
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Items shipped to you:
Ordered Title Price (GBP) Dispatched Subtotal
1 ON (SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU / STEVEN HESS), Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not, CD £4.50 1 £4.501 RENE HELL, The Terminal Symphony, CD £4.99 1 £4.991 ROLL THE DICE, Roll The Dice, CD £4.50 1 £4.501 SVARTE GREINER, Kappe, CD £4.50 1 £4.501 SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU, Nuage, CD £4.50 1 £4.501 SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU, Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), CD £4.50 1 £4.50 Subtotal: £27.49
― ilxor, Friday, 6 January 2012 05:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
yup! exactly why i asked. i got "Black Book of Capitalism" last winter sale. i usually try to get 5-6 Type things each year. got the other On album last year. waited on this one... i thought it'd be discounted this year... sure enough! yay boomkat
― ilxor, Friday, 6 January 2012 05:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
still lots to explore, i haven't checked out the Zelienople, North Sea, Xela, or a bunch of others yet.... those any good?
― ilxor, Friday, 6 January 2012 05:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh man, you should get Xela's 'For Frosty Mornings And Summer Nights'! Warm bubbly electronica, the last great album in its genre as far as I'm concerned.
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 6 January 2012 12:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Totally recommend Zelienople's last album, Give It Up. Really good ambient rock along the lines of late Talk Talk, Bark Psychosis or Dean Roberts/Autistic Daughters.
― Some English guy in West Bumblefrickin' nowhere (NickB), Friday, 6 January 2012 12:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
awesome, thanks guys!
― ilxor, Saturday, 7 January 2012 21:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Got the Richard Skelton SKURA box (the DVD edition) for my birthday, so now I have everything (I was missing maybe 6 CDs before). Have been listening to it a lot; it's all great, of course.
― toby, Saturday, 7 January 2012 21:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Do you *really* need more than Landings?
(That isn't meant to sound as polemical as it does.)
― djh, Sunday, 8 January 2012 19:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
I dug out his Wolf Notes LP, as *AR this weekend and loved it. Quite a different feel to Landings, mostly due to the vocals: http://soundcloud.com/_type/sets/ar-wolf-notes
― Super Receptor (Barnaby, Hardly), Monday, 9 January 2012 08:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Landings and Wolf Notes are probably the best, I agree.
― toby, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 13:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'd like Wolf Notes more if it didn't have singing (or had a different singer).
― djh, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is SKURA a good use of fifty quid?
― djh, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
i love Landings and havent heard the *AR thing, but also recommend Marking Time, which was reissued widely last year (well... as widely as a Richard Skelton release is likely to be reissued)
― ilxor, Friday, 13 January 2012 00:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Quite enjoying the new Ryan Teague album - it sounded incredible in the shop.
― djh, Monday, 12 March 2012 21:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Can't seem to find any talk about the new bvdub double cd.. I sounds a small departure from previous works, more vocals and different rhythms.. anyone heard it?
― mmmm, Friday, 6 April 2012 15:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
― djh, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
since this is one of the only threads that had a discussion about it i just want to reiterate how awesome *AR is
― Lamp, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 01:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Can't stand the voice on *AR.
― djh, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah i can see that but she doesnt bother me
new record 'griis' on low point is p rad btw
― Lamp, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Was that A Winged Victory For the Sullen on Countryfile, just now?
― djh, Sunday, 29 April 2012 17:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
I could imagine buying SKURA in a moment of weakness thought not fully keen on the idea of buying MP3s.
― djh, Sunday, 29 April 2012 19:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
The new Richard Skelton, Verses Of Birds, is fantastic, very striking and rich but rather dreamy at the same time.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 21 June 2012 11:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
enjoying this new daphne oram collection:
http://boomkat.com/cds/507123-daphne-oram-the-oram-tapes-volume-one-deluxe-2cd-edition
― take the claude bolling (get bent), Monday, 25 June 2012 00:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
is there any overlap with the Oramics 2xcd thing?
(have been to see the oramics machine in the science museum a couple of times now. but am not entirely convinced by what i've heard of the actual recorded output)
― koogs, Monday, 25 June 2012 11:37 (10 months ago) Permalink
SKURA dvd: is it a case of just putting the disc in your computer and then ripping to another format to play? is the package nice?
― djh, Monday, 2 July 2012 20:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
packaging is fairly nice iirc. dvd is properly tagged mp3 files, just drag and drop to your computer.
― toby, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 11:48 (10 months ago) Permalink
v tempting. i don't think i can bring myself to commission one of those one off cd box sets ...
― djh, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 16:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
Pleased with SKURA although I'd probably have preferred finished CDs.
The new album is very good, too.
― djh, Monday, 16 July 2012 20:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
Working my way through SKURA.
Any thoughts on it?
― djh, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
A cracker - and the literal embodiment of this thread - http://boomkat.com/cds/556557-morton-feldman-crippled-symmetry-at-june-in-buffalo
― Terabytes of FLACS of screaming (Call the Cops), Sunday, 29 July 2012 19:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
SKURA was fifty quid well spent. Some beautiful stuff on there - though I have to confess I had to copy it all onto CD.
― djh, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 19:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
Some new Richard Skelton oddities:
http://www.corbelstonepress.com/support.htm
― djh, Thursday, 20 September 2012 18:14 (7 months ago) Permalink
New Nils Frahm:
http://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/sets/nils-frahm-screws
― djh, Sunday, 23 September 2012 18:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
Michael Tanner on his new album:
The Cloisters, Michael reveals, was conceived during a time of deep personal dissatisfaction with the drone/ambient/classical minimalist ‘scene’ – one seemingly populated by “the same 30 blokes, making the same music in Ableton [loop-based music software], more often than not sporting the same beard. It was made under an awareness that I was lumped in with them, and internalising if/how I was really so different. It became an attempt to see if I could retain the style of music I’ve been making for 12 years now, but still try and get out of the box, so to speak.”
Never really thought about the process behind making this music and/or Ableton. Can we name the 30 blokes?
― djh, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:38 (6 months ago) Permalink
There's another Skelton album, too, by the way.
― djh, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:39 (6 months ago) Permalink
More importantly can we name the beard?
― itt: 'splaining men (ledge), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 19:06 (6 months ago) Permalink
Haven't managed to work out who any of these bearded people might be.
― djh, Sunday, 11 November 2012 11:08 (6 months ago) Permalink
This sounds nice ...
http://www.gogoyoko.com/album/Stafnbui
― djh, Monday, 24 December 2012 22:04 (4 months ago) Permalink